Some people are paralyzed in their tracks when they hit an obstacle in their lives, while others manage to thrive
because
of them. Ryan Holiday's
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
doesn't provide step-by-step instructions on accomplishing your goals, but it does offer a mantra and mindset that everyone can pursue.

This is part of Lifehacker's new
book review
series. Not every life hack can be summed up in a blog post, so we've decided to review some of our favorite life-changing books for deeper dives into life's most important topics.

In the past week, Ryan Holiday read seven books, flew from Austin to Atlanta to Miami to Atlanta to …

Who This Book Is For

This book is for everyone, and I mean
everyone
. We all have obstacles in our life. Whether you're an entrepreneur, artist, or student, this book is about seeing problems the right way. It cuts through the bullshit excuses you may have and delivers example after example of great people doing great things despite their struggles. This book is for everyone that wants to do something, but hasn't yet.

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This is also a motivational read for anyone that
feels like they're stuck
and they have nowhere to go. Holiday makes it clear that this is "not a book of gushing, hazy optimism," so cynics can approach knowing that this is not a head-in-the-clouds, follow-your-dreams lesson in looking on the bright side. If anything, I recommend you buy this book as a gift for someone who is constantly complaining, whining, or announcing that the world is out to get them.

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Overview

Kevin
"Purge"
Godec is an American commentator and Dota 2 content creator. Starting from making DotA content in 2011 on his youtube channel and his website PurgeGamers, he is a popular figure in the Dota 2 community.

Born in the United States, Kevin was gaming enthusiast since when he was young, his alias Purge came from purchasing an Xbox when Halo 2 was released and initally called himself "Purge058" with the numbers are named after a spartan from the Halo book series. Consequently, he removed the numbers from his nickname to Purge. Purge found interest in playing DotA after playing on Warcraft III custom maps and stumbled upon the game. Kevin graduated in 2009 and obtained a physics degree.

While being made redundant in his engineering job, he saw an opportunity to make YouTube videos after seeing numerous "Youtubers" becoming famous from making videos and income from it. While playing a variety of games during his transition to making YouTube videos, he watched a Youtuber called Husky, a popular Starcraft 2 caster and found inspiration from it. His Youtube channel was called "PurgeGamers" and initally made DotA tutorials and casting competitive teams and smaller tournaments such as DotaCash before the beta
Dota 2
of Valve was announced. Showing determination and effort with his work despite having criticism, he continued to produce content on his Youtube channel and his website and over time became popular. While producing content, he also took on other roles such as interviewing, playing in a competitive team and analysing Dota 2 games in prestige tournaments such as
The International
and
The Majors
. To this day, Purge is one of the most popular figures in the Dota 2 community.

Kevin publishes an on-going series of "
Purge Plays...
" videos aimed at helping newer players. Each video is a full game played and commentated with each Hero, where he discusses strategy and mechanics. He also known for making "
Welcome to Dota, You Suck...
" guides to help beginners obtain a significant amount of knowledge about the concept of the game and its mechanics. Purge also provides

After shifting to
Dota 2
he continued to cast small tournaments and casting pub matches. He was invited by Valve in 2012 to to do English post-game interviews at
The International 2012
. After finding recent success as an interviewer and returning back from a short period of playing in a professional team, Purge was picked up by Valve for for the beginner's stream of The International 2014, which was designed for newer players who were just introduced to the game. He saw this as a good opportunity for him to improve as a caster. In 2015 he was later invited to
The International 2015
and
Frankfurt Major
. In the International 2016, he was invited by Valve to as a "Weatherman" during analysis segments, showing a different way of analyzing the game using hi-tech equipment and software accompanied with new tools such as drawing and creating clips on a television screen.

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25 Apr 2017

How the need to filter noise from social media to deliver trusted news worldwide led to a versatile tool for social media events monitoring.

At Thomson Reuters, we take our
Trust Principles
very seriously. The preservation of independence, integrity and freedom from bias is fundamental to the way we do business, so it’s only natural that our internal teams would establish a way to crowdsource news notifications from the people who see events first viathe most unlikely of sources: Twitter.

Sameena Shah
, our director of research for technology development, and
Reginald Chua
, the executive editor for editorial operations in the data and innovation division of Reuters, led the way in building Reuters News Tracer from the ground up in an innovative intrapreneurship.

Reginald Chua
:Reuters News Tracer is a capability that we’ve developed with our
RD team
that finds events that are
breaking on Twitter
. It assigns them a newsworthiness score so you can focus on the things that are important, and the real magic of it is that it then gives a confidence score about how likely it is that those events are true. This is really critical because the landscape of news has changed dramatically.

Reginald Chua

Sameena Shah
:Over the last almost one decade we have seen an increasing amount of news events unraveling first on social media. In some ways we can say that social media has actually
disrupted the news industry
and journalists do need to tap into that information and signals that are available in social media. So the mission really was to tap into the social media content to figure out what the news events really are and present them in a timely manner as soon as possible. The goal was to effectively get rid of all the spam, the noise and only harness the signal or the news events that are important for our journalists and eventually our customers.

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